Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Express messengers must get killed if they want to be thought honest.

want to be thought honest.
 The opponents of high license in New York regard the declaration of Governor Hill in one of his vetoes that the ''Excise laws l should be substantially uniform in all parts 1 of the State'' as an intimation that he will not approve the Crosby bill, because it's pro- visions are applicable only to the cities of | New York and Brooklyn.
 M. de Lesseps will have some moro ex- Plaining to do. Civil Engineer Boyd, who | has just returned from Panama, has been 1 telling the Engineers society of London some l of the facts he has discovered. It is admit 1 ted in Panama, he says, that the company will require at least $40, 900, 900 in addition to the money already spent. As he declares 1 that the work cannot be completed in less than twelve years, and as the annual interest and administration charges are even now l 6,000,O00 this addition would raise the cost of the canal to something like $820,- | 100000, while the cempany's obligations would amount to more than $1 200, ,000, 900, for the last loan caused debt of $90, ,00O, ,000 and yielded only $40, ,OO0, ,OOO in cash 1 MT. Clark's plan to give Worcester uni versity is being again warmly discussed, and the Boston Herald speaks rather plainly as follows: We presume there is hardly dis l sent among those intelligent on the subject of education, from the opinion that the leg acy to found Clark university in Worcester is, if not altogether mistake, at least great misdirectien Of money that might have been better used. We are glad to observe now that there is hope that the plans of MT. Clark may be modified, if not altogether l changed. It is 8 delicate matter to advise Mir. Clark, but he should be made aware of the opinion that prevails on the subject among educators in and out of the common wealth.
 The New York railroad commissioners have been decidedly slow in the car-heating matter, but they have not been remss in re- gard to railroad bridges. They issued orders in January, 1884, requiring plans and strain sheets of the $500 railroad bridges in the State to be reported These were submitted to the examination of Charles F. Stowe, g graduate of the Rensselaer, Polytechnic insti- tute in 1879 and since employed in bridge | WoIh' AhOlAeI cllSlAco1, l. W. OHSACOE Ol Utica, has been dispatched to inspect person ally every bridge in the State. He calls up on each road to send an engineer or bridge superintendent with him and take time for a thorough survey. Upon the material thus afforded, the New York commissioners are about to issue a special report upon the bridges in the State.
 An investigator says that the chief effect of an earthquake on the ocean is the raising of great sea wave, sometimes very large, as for example, sixty feet high at Lisbon ir 1761, also eighty feet at Callao in 1724, and 200 feet at Lupatka in 1737. These waves are often more destructive on land than the actual shocks-the influx usually preceded by an outflow, which, in fact, acts as warn ing. One of the most remarkable effects is the distance to which these waves are propa gated as "great waves," for example, right across the Pacific. Thus most large earth